Well if you ignore most of the stuff on the to-do list, you get a lot of art done. Six and a half hours worth of it. Am I done with ironing? You’d think I would be…but no. Because I found more mistakes. I seriously don’t know where my brain was when I numbered this, and that messed up my tracing…because I trace by number, and I didn’t realize there was another double-numbered section, so I missed tracing about 20 pieces. It’s OK…I figured it out yesterday during that six and half hours!
So I set up my smaller light box and wandered back to it a couple of times, traced the missing pieces, then cut those bits out, and then put them in the pile of to-be-ironed pieces. What a pain.
I did manage to get well past the fucked-up sections though…while watching/listening to the mandated videos I have to get through for school. I get tested on bloodborne pathogens, sexual harassment, mandated reporter duties, and integrated pest management.
Three hours’ worth. Fun stuff. But it’s done. That’s worth it.
These guys…
Mom is ironing. We must sleep. It was hot.
The big girl went in the pool…
She uses the pool the most…supervised, of course, and she can’t swim as well with the back legs any more.
After dinner, there was more of this…seriously down to the last line…a word and a half, plus signing it and dating the speech itself.
Soon.
More sky ironing. Cat has moved. Sky is dark. I’m still listening to work crap at this point.
I’m not really good at listening, honestly. I space out. But I’ve seen the same stuff over and over again and know most of the answers already. I’m not good with Audible books or podcasts though. I totally zone out when people are talking to me. Just so you know.
Nighttime…she’s still sleeping…old lady.
She’s a good girl. She did move in between, I swear.
So I’m at almost 13 hours of ironing. Sigh. So slow.
I’m much closer to done though…less than 100 pieces, I think…
Just need to finish some of the body parts and the hair, and then decide what to do with the pieces around the edges. Should they all be one color? Should they be different values of one color? Should they be all different colors? I don’t know. Maybe black and white, but then what do you do in the middle? Alternate or find a fabric that is both (that’s not hard…my black and white stash is massive). Anyway. That’ll be a decision for later today hopefully. First I’m going to the gym. Tonight I have a birthday party and a show…so that should be cool…but not really artsy. I was trying to come up with a drawing for the last embroidery last night while I was attempting to fall asleep (a really bad time to be thinking about such things). I think I came up with one, but I need to actually draw it too. OK. Outta here.
Kathy Nida 